Finding a Solution to a Problem Creative Problem Solving In the early 2000’s, I was fortunate enough to get to know various creative problem solving experts by traveling to Britain, France and Germany. I have been practicing these steps since then. In a recent article Jeffrey Baumgartner writes that “Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas […]
A Successful Ghillie Suit It is most definitely not easy to create a Ghillie Suit! In this article we feature a hand made Ghillie that turned out extremely effective. The suit was hand manufactured by Alida Meade. Alida’s suit in the photo below is an example of how such a suite looks like heavy foliage and […]
Leadership Training The U.S. military has studied leadership in depth. One of their definitions is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission (U.S. Army, 1983). Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership knowledge and skills (available at http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html). Leadership Training At Milites Dei young people are taught in […]
Life Skills at Milites Dei Kaieteur News writes that ‘The public needs to be aware of the importance of Life Skills – programmes which would actually benefit the individual in self-development’ (available at http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/10/06/the-importance-of-life-skills/). Christopher Cascio explains that ‘Life skills are skills a child needs to develop in order to succeed in life, but are […]
You Have a Future Over 40% of 18-24 yr olds in South Africa are not in formal education, nor employed, nor disabled so that they cannot work. This represents a severe loss of human potential just at the time that young people should be becoming economically active. Moreover, Statistics South Africa estimated by mid-2010 that our […]
Team-Building Contact us if you need to send staff on a team-building event. BNI Phoenix White River recently joined Milites Dei for such an event. It was not only fun but productive as well. The success of a successful team-building event is that each exercise must actually contribute to staff connecting during the event which […]
Care for Customers Skills Training for Employees Customers are the usual source of income for an organization. Customers are the lifeblood of any organization be it a global corporation with thousands of employees and a multi-billion turnover, or a sole trader with a handful of regular customers. Customers are also an exceptional source of information […]
Support as an Ingredient of Team-Building Bodwell (2016) explains that the team members need to ‘… support each other. Support involves actively keeping an eye on the other team members and demonstrating a willingness to help each other out when help is needed–even when it might not be requested. Team members encourage each other to […]
Team-building and Highly Motivated Staff Teams that are highly motivated and positive are not only fun to be part of, but they also accomplish far more than teams that are struggling with morale so writes MindTools (available at https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/building-positive-team.htm). At Milites Dei we invite delegates to participate in team-building activities outside the workplace, specifically in […]
Team-Building for Companies Salas et al. (2008), Klein et al. (2009) and Macy & Izumi (1993) explain that ‘Team building is one of the most widely used group development activities in organizations. Of all organizational activities, one study found team-development to have the strongest effect (versus financial measures) for improving organizational performance. Fun is an […]